| William Blake (1757–1827). The Poetical Works. 1908. | | | | Selections from ‘Jerusalem’ | | [The Wrath of God] |
| | (Jerusalem, f. 95, ll. 5–17.)
THE BREATH DIVINE went forth over the morning hills. Albion rose | |
| In anger, the wrath of God, breaking bright, flaming on all sides around | |
| His awful limbs: into the Heavens he walkèd, clothèd in flames, | |
| Loud thund’ring, with broad flashes of flaming lightning and pillars | |
| Of fire, speaking the Words of Eternity in Human Forms, in direful | 5 |
| Revolutions of Action and Passion, thro’ the Four Elements on all sides | |
| Surrounding his awful Members. Thou seest the Sun in heavy clouds | |
| Struggling to rise above the Mountains; in his burning hand | |
| He takes his Bow, then chooses out his arrows of flaming gold; | |
| Murmuring, the Bowstring breathes with ardour; clouds roll round the | 10 |
| Horns of the wide Bow; loud sounding winds sport on the mountain brows, | |
| Compelling Urizen to his Furrow, and Tharmas to his Sheepfold, | |
| And Luvah to his Loom. | | | | |
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